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neither john boehner nor eric cantor can say they will support the rubio plan. the president says, as maria teresa just said, he wants to move forward, but are the signs that the republicans still haven't decided on what they think on this issue? >> well, the republicans have to wake up, martin. at this point 62% of the american people support not only immigration reform but they also support a pathway to citizenship. regardless -- >> but angela, you just heard john boehner refusing to answer the question and eric cantor can't give you an answer either. >> well, you would have a hard time answering, too, martin if 131 of your colleagues come from districts that are 80% white and have no context for what this really looks like considering the fact that america is now very diverse and the face of america does not reflect the face of those particular congressional districts. >> i think that's right. maria, the bipartisan senate plan for a bath to citizenship, as you know, requires 11 million illegal immigrants to pay back taxes, a fine, and survive a probationary p
neither john boehner nor eric cantor can say they will support the rubio plan. the president says, as maria teresa just said, he wants to move forward, but are the signs that the republicans still haven't decided on what they think on this issue? >> well, the republicans have to wake up, martin. at this point 62% of the american people support not only immigration reform but they also support a pathway to citizenship. regardless -- >> but angela, you just heard john boehner refusing...
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eric cantor to the rescue. he is ready to save the republican image and put a stop to the electoral college losses, right? of course, this is not the first time eric cantor has tried to save the party. you see, it actually is the fourth attempt that he has had. in 2009, cantor held a pizza party, remember that? with jeb bush and mitt romney by launching the national council for a new america that didn't work. a year later, cantor was back at it. he was one of the young guns ready to take the republican party by storm. >> there is a better way, and a new team is ready to bring america back. eric cantor, kevin mccarthy, paul ryan joined by common-sense conservative candidates from across the country. together, they are ready to make history. together they are the young guns. >> the good old days. in 2011, cantor launched the you cut program. he wanted to get the public to vote on weekly cuts to federal government. another year, another failure. so today cantor launched the "making life work" campaign. he is tryin
eric cantor to the rescue. he is ready to save the republican image and put a stop to the electoral college losses, right? of course, this is not the first time eric cantor has tried to save the party. you see, it actually is the fourth attempt that he has had. in 2009, cantor held a pizza party, remember that? with jeb bush and mitt romney by launching the national council for a new america that didn't work. a year later, cantor was back at it. he was one of the young guns ready to take the...
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>> yeah, we have seen this before from eric cantor. and you know, the fact that he is making this speech, to try to renew momentum on some of these issues, i mean, is something that he's been wanting to do since december, when the republicans rr pretty divided. but the devil's in the details with these kind of speeches. when you're talking about tax reform, i think he told "national review" that he wants to look at a family-friendly tax reform. well, when you have a budget chairman preparing a budget that's going to balance in ten years, it's going to be really hard to keep things like the child tax credit. so we're going to see how this pans out, because you can't talk about a budget plabalancing in years without cutting some tax cuts that are really important to the middle class. we'll see how this pans out in terms of policy, rather than what we're going to hear today. >> so eric cantor was on "morning joe" today, talking exactly about that. the financial aspect of what it means to be helpful to america. and you bring up the middle
>> yeah, we have seen this before from eric cantor. and you know, the fact that he is making this speech, to try to renew momentum on some of these issues, i mean, is something that he's been wanting to do since december, when the republicans rr pretty divided. but the devil's in the details with these kind of speeches. when you're talking about tax reform, i think he told "national review" that he wants to look at a family-friendly tax reform. well, when you have a budget...
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in 2010, eric cantor launched his young guns thing. young guns, presumably to try to supplant the old guns in the party. he then launched something called cut and grow so you at home could set the republican party's agenda instead of the old guys in the party who are setting the party's agenda. in 2009 he launched something called the national council for a new america to tap outside the beltway ideas for the republican party's agenda. sadly, the pizza parlor that he chose for that launch event for his big outside the belt initiative was a pizza parlor that literally was inside the beltway. you see, the beltway is not just a metaphor for things around washington. the beltway is a freeway around the d.c. area that defines that area. and mr. cantor's outside the beltway pizza parlor excitement was actually well inside that freeway loop. and that actually was the only event that that eric cantor republican party relaunch ever had. so eric cantor does not have the world's greatest track record with relaunching his party, right, with choosi
in 2010, eric cantor launched his young guns thing. young guns, presumably to try to supplant the old guns in the party. he then launched something called cut and grow so you at home could set the republican party's agenda instead of the old guys in the party who are setting the party's agenda. in 2009 he launched something called the national council for a new america to tap outside the beltway ideas for the republican party's agenda. sadly, the pizza parlor that he chose for that launch event...
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eric cantor, 4.0. >> extreme makeover edition. >> i think we learned a lot of lessons from the last election. >> they're tone deaf. >> they're getting killed. >> some significant candidate quality problems. >> we need to change our rhetoric. >> he is talking about the tone. >> there is no desire for any opposition. >> we have to show our ideas are better at fighting poverty. >> the ideas are better at solving health care. >> health care, education, job growth. >> it will get worse even from this point. >> humane rhetoric? is it enough? >> cantor appeared to move to the middle. >> our house republican majority stands ready. >> calling for immigration reform, big day for immigration. >> time to provide an opportunity. >> it is going to get worse for legal residents and citizenship. >> providing citizenship and a path for legalization. >> for those who were brought to this country as children. >> is the gop learning its lesson on immigration. >> eric cantor is worried about his own political future. >> that shows how lost they all feel. >> it is going to get worse even from this point. >> the f
eric cantor, 4.0. >> extreme makeover edition. >> i think we learned a lot of lessons from the last election. >> they're tone deaf. >> they're getting killed. >> some significant candidate quality problems. >> we need to change our rhetoric. >> he is talking about the tone. >> there is no desire for any opposition. >> we have to show our ideas are better at fighting poverty. >> the ideas are better at solving health care. >>...
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i think in the reality-based world, i never thought i would say it, eric cantor is in the reality-based world. he understands they lost the election, because it was not the percepti perception, it was the majority of the voters who said the president was on the right track and they like his policies. the marketing thing at the most shallow, the slogans, small furry animals and motherhood and apple pie, doing things, actually is politics. you can only get to do stuff if you win elections, you can only get to win election if you can tell people what you stand for. it has to be something more than happiness, but that is what a political debate is, and maybe rush needs to get closer to his microphone or take some more medication. >> and marketeers seem to want to go with what works. at newark airport, which is why the show was so different. they had directtv on the plane, i saw on al sharpton's hour that they came up with a way of putting together two speeches that sound very similar, let's listen to this. >> well, it starts by making sure that everyone in america gets a fair shot at succes
i think in the reality-based world, i never thought i would say it, eric cantor is in the reality-based world. he understands they lost the election, because it was not the percepti perception, it was the majority of the voters who said the president was on the right track and they like his policies. the marketing thing at the most shallow, the slogans, small furry animals and motherhood and apple pie, doing things, actually is politics. you can only get to do stuff if you win elections, you...
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today it was eric cantor's turn. the young dick nixon of the gop house is now saying he wants change. trouble is what he's said before and where he talked today. the super hawk of the party gave his manifesto at the city's nonprofit war room, the american enterprise institute. what he came out for, some new dedegree that colleges have to conduct employment surveys to say what jobs there are for history majors, english majors, you name it. i guess he wants to cut down on these people taking liberal subjects in college that allow you to think and express yourself. he sounds like he wants the federal government to have become a helicopter mom hovering over all of us. and they say democrats are intervening in people's live. what will republicans do next to try to deflect from their history of starting unnecessary wars, chasing minorities and others from the polling places. being hawkish and undemocratic are not exactly great recruiting posters. let's face it. helping me to explain the latest republican face lift are john
today it was eric cantor's turn. the young dick nixon of the gop house is now saying he wants change. trouble is what he's said before and where he talked today. the super hawk of the party gave his manifesto at the city's nonprofit war room, the american enterprise institute. what he came out for, some new dedegree that colleges have to conduct employment surveys to say what jobs there are for history majors, english majors, you name it. i guess he wants to cut down on these people taking...
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so it really was striking to hear eric cantor literally lifting lines from barack obama. i guess what the republican party has decided is barack obama is popular so they need to sound more like him. that doesn't mean they're going to change their underlying policy but they sure do want to sound like the guy who's more popular. >> there has been a lot of pushback from the conservative entertainment complex, one being rush limbaugh. i want to hear what he had to say after eric cantor's speech. >> there isn't any resistance to obama anywhere. and it's going to get worse. even from this point. it is because of who obama is and what his policies are and the perception that the american people massively support it all. and that's cantor is saying we're going to have to do a better job of explaining who we are. we need to do a better job of explaining why we're doing what we're doing. that's -- i think -- well, that epitomizes how lost they all feel. and right now, folks, there is no fight. >> so hogan, they have been labeled -- the right, that is, as the party of no. if eric ca
so it really was striking to hear eric cantor literally lifting lines from barack obama. i guess what the republican party has decided is barack obama is popular so they need to sound more like him. that doesn't mean they're going to change their underlying policy but they sure do want to sound like the guy who's more popular. >> there has been a lot of pushback from the conservative entertainment complex, one being rush limbaugh. i want to hear what he had to say after eric cantor's...
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it's an absurdity eric cantor -- >> the speech by eric cantor was a very good speech. >> if it wasn't given by him maybe. >> eric cantor is a good guy. he's got a family. he cares about this country. he's a patriot. he cares about making government work better and this is a reform speech. i thought -- because it was practical. i think for republicans they can't be the party of bob dole caring only about the deficit. they have to care about practical -- the reason you're so upset is you know it was a good speech. >> he went over to the aei, the number one war center, ths totally neocon. your thoughts. this is hopeless. i thought he'd admit the truth here today. >> it was pa joring to hear some of that -- >> hasn't he been the guy standing behind boehner's back waiting to trip him over because he's been too moderate. >> no question. he's been standing off center stage waiting for his opportunity to become speaker. i thought that there was a lot of practicality in the speech but not any big ideas. i think -- >> it was like sundries and knowings in a drugstore. little items, like telling
it's an absurdity eric cantor -- >> the speech by eric cantor was a very good speech. >> if it wasn't given by him maybe. >> eric cantor is a good guy. he's got a family. he cares about this country. he's a patriot. he cares about making government work better and this is a reform speech. i thought -- because it was practical. i think for republicans they can't be the party of bob dole caring only about the deficit. they have to care about practical -- the reason you're so...
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president obama has eric cantor rebranding the gop again. but he kind of sounds like someone else i know. >>> and one week from the state of the union we go inside the obama strategy to sell his agenda. >>> plus there are lots of ways to make change. actress and activist diane carroll is one of them. the first black woman to star in her own primetime tv series joins me live. big show coming from los angeles. stay with us. ♪ >>> have you joined the "politicsnation" conversation on facebook yet? we hope you will. today many shared their thoughts on trayvon martin. today would have been his 18th birthday. cynthia says happy birthday, trayvon. a life taken too early. bonnie says my heart goes out to his family on this day. tony says may he and this nation's many victims of gun violence rest in peace. may the rest of us fight for return to neighborliness and sanity in the usa. i agree, tony. we'd like to have you share your thoughts with us too. please head over to facebook and search "politicsnation" and like us to join the conversation that k
president obama has eric cantor rebranding the gop again. but he kind of sounds like someone else i know. >>> and one week from the state of the union we go inside the obama strategy to sell his agenda. >>> plus there are lots of ways to make change. actress and activist diane carroll is one of them. the first black woman to star in her own primetime tv series joins me live. big show coming from los angeles. stay with us. ♪ >>> have you joined the...
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i thanked eric cantor and i'm happy to hear eric cantor. what he said was i will support a pathway for citizenship for young immigrants. the majority leader who is an influence member of his caucus and party voted against the dream act the last time it was before the house and now wants to adopt it. i think that's a step forward. you know what, every now and then there are elections and we all respect the results of the elections and do the people's work that they sent us here to do. >> jennifer: you're so great. that's such a positive way to look at it. a cynical person might say hmm, there are 11 million undocumented immigrants. if they get a path to citizenship, that may have been 11 million people who might end up voting democratic. are they are really going to make the changes that they now say that they want to make. >> i got it, good, here is what happened the american people voted for immigration reform resoundingly. in colorado, nevada new mexico, florida, they voted for it. democrats really want it. you're right republicans really
i thanked eric cantor and i'm happy to hear eric cantor. what he said was i will support a pathway for citizenship for young immigrants. the majority leader who is an influence member of his caucus and party voted against the dream act the last time it was before the house and now wants to adopt it. i think that's a step forward. you know what, every now and then there are elections and we all respect the results of the elections and do the people's work that they sent us here to do. >>...
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with us, house majority leader eric eric cantor. >> more revenue increases? something you could sign on to. >> absolutely not. john, it's more of the same. we've got a real problem in this country. we know we're spending much more money than we have to the tune of a trillion plus dollars a year and it's got to stop. it's got to stop because it doesn't help people for us to keep doing that. and we're going to face a debt crisis, we're going to face higher taxes. people will have to pay higher interest on mortgages. these things are going to happen if you keep kicking the can, which is why we asked the president come help us solve this problem. >> when the sequester deadline hits at the beginning of march, would you favor letting the deadline go through and all those cuts? >> we've asked the president repeatedly to join us in replacing the sequestered cuts with cuts that make sense, with cuts that go towards managing down the debt long term. and to this -- to this point he's not taken us seriously. and. >> many of your colleagues are saying, okay, there's no de
with us, house majority leader eric eric cantor. >> more revenue increases? something you could sign on to. >> absolutely not. john, it's more of the same. we've got a real problem in this country. we know we're spending much more money than we have to the tune of a trillion plus dollars a year and it's got to stop. it's got to stop because it doesn't help people for us to keep doing that. and we're going to face a debt crisis, we're going to face higher taxes. people will have to...
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if eric cantor can do it, then it needs to be done. but i'm just -- i think that there are candidates out there every single cycle that get in the way of the republicans try to rebrand and they are back in this same position every two years. >> eric cantor is not alone, for sure, jonathan, your old boss, or i guess your boss, karl rove, as how often talked about trying to fix the image and he's angered a lot of republicans, especially far right conservatives by talking about his plans to go against the most extreme in the primary. mark levin, the talk show host, says conservatives are being stabbed in the back. erick erickson, the editor of redstate.com says the efforts will, quote, crush conservatives, destroy the tea party, and put a bunch of squishes in republican leadership positions. what's your response to that? >> i tend to think that's kind of alarmism. we haven't really proposed any policy changes or anything like that, at least from the crossroads group. whenever you come about this type of thing, you have to look at it in te
if eric cantor can do it, then it needs to be done. but i'm just -- i think that there are candidates out there every single cycle that get in the way of the republicans try to rebrand and they are back in this same position every two years. >> eric cantor is not alone, for sure, jonathan, your old boss, or i guess your boss, karl rove, as how often talked about trying to fix the image and he's angered a lot of republicans, especially far right conservatives by talking about his plans to...
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we watched eric cantor's speech. is it tone shifting or ideology shifting? how much is just about dressing things up? >> yeah, that is i think a really important question. everyone can kind of agree, they need to not say the word self-deportation, that would be offensive to hispanics. that is agreement in the republican party. they don't have agreement on do we need a change in policy, do we legalize the kids or everyone, all 11 million undocumented workers. >> it's a huge step. when the president announced this last summer, they all panned it. eric cantor said it's make not a bad idea. is it the same plan? >> it's basically the same plan. that was then and this is now and seven out of 10 hispanic voters rejected mitt romney. so eric cantor may have a different view. >> can we talk about unity when you have two responses to a state of the union address? how is that marriage going? >> not only two responses -- >> tell people what you mean by that. >> we have the official republican response coming from senator mark arubio and the tea party response coming fro
we watched eric cantor's speech. is it tone shifting or ideology shifting? how much is just about dressing things up? >> yeah, that is i think a really important question. everyone can kind of agree, they need to not say the word self-deportation, that would be offensive to hispanics. that is agreement in the republican party. they don't have agreement on do we need a change in policy, do we legalize the kids or everyone, all 11 million undocumented workers. >> it's a huge step....
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earlier i had a chance to speak with eric cantor from virginia. i asked for his response by the president t. take a listen. >> here we go again, larry. all they want to do is take more money from them so it can be spent in washington and, two, kick the can. that's what this country doesn't need. we want to get the fiscal situation under control and start growing the economy again. >> would you say the house republican conference is behind the across the board spending cut sequester? about $85 billion in 2013. is your conference behind it? >> what you could accurately say about our conference, we have tried two time to replace the sequester cuts with cut that is go to the main drivers of the deficit which are the entitlement programs. we have spoken before. this is the exponential growth in spending and how we get it under control is deal with entitlements. the president missed every opportunity to join us in solving the b problem. so now we are facing the sequester and, again, i think the house republicans are determined to try and get our spendin
earlier i had a chance to speak with eric cantor from virginia. i asked for his response by the president t. take a listen. >> here we go again, larry. all they want to do is take more money from them so it can be spent in washington and, two, kick the can. that's what this country doesn't need. we want to get the fiscal situation under control and start growing the economy again. >> would you say the house republican conference is behind the across the board spending cut sequester?...
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the main thing here is eric cantor at 1:00 p.m. is going to give a speech that sort of is trying to remake the gop in a softer lens, if you will. i read the excerpts of the speech. i can tell you if you look at that speech, eric cantor will be moving more towards the middle on immigration. that's all i can say. you see the speech actually at 1:00 p.m., then there's a sort of new tune. >> right here on msnbc. >> from the majority leader. >> luke, wait. before we get to the eric cantor remarks, which, of course, we can't really discuss, let's talk about the secret bipartisan group in the house. they may get more legislatively specific than the senate, which is surprising, i think, to a lot of people given the fact that you have really progressive voiz on immigration reform like ru ease gutierrez working along folks like raul labrador. where is the middle ground there? how does that work? >> well, i think where you'll see there is the idea of the pathway to sit sfwlenship if they feel they can get 65, 70, 80 of their members to join a
the main thing here is eric cantor at 1:00 p.m. is going to give a speech that sort of is trying to remake the gop in a softer lens, if you will. i read the excerpts of the speech. i can tell you if you look at that speech, eric cantor will be moving more towards the middle on immigration. that's all i can say. you see the speech actually at 1:00 p.m., then there's a sort of new tune. >> right here on msnbc. >> from the majority leader. >> luke, wait. before we get to the eric...
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i think if you ask eric cantor they are not mutually exclusive. a big part of why he will give this speech is because republicans understand what happened in the last election. which is that they got the majority of white men, that's about it. but interestingly enough, when it comes to immigration, we have seen big movement on the senate side, especially among republicans. but still house republican leaders, including eric cantor, they are still very cautious, when it comes to immigration reform that includes a path so citizenship. listen to what he said on immigration. >> i'm glad that i have colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the capitol trying to address the issue. now, there are some things that have got to take place. and that is recognition we have over 11 million people here illegally. and so we have been a country of immigrants. i talk a lot about the fact i wouldn't be here if this country wasn't welcoming to my grandparents who fled religious persecution in russia to come here. there is that, and the compassion for the families tha
i think if you ask eric cantor they are not mutually exclusive. a big part of why he will give this speech is because republicans understand what happened in the last election. which is that they got the majority of white men, that's about it. but interestingly enough, when it comes to immigration, we have seen big movement on the senate side, especially among republicans. but still house republican leaders, including eric cantor, they are still very cautious, when it comes to immigration...
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there's not real explanation as to why they're not doing that. >> eric cantor on the house floor said -- actually, let's play the sound. do we have that? >> we want to protect the women who are subject to abuse on triable lands, and, unfortunately, there are issues that don't directly bare on that that have come up that have complicated it. >> michael, i just think you shouldn't have eric cantor and his sort of dripping virginia drawal. it's so unconvincing that they are really making violence against women abuse directed at women a priority with that kind of rhetoric and these kind of optics. >> i think the optics is the word, and it's really sort of -- you know, it's just to me one more issue of disconnect from washington and the discussions there, and you go out to the rest of america and what people would say and what they want to happen in washington and what they want, how they want their lives affected by washington. >> you know, there have been a lot of debates relating to women's bodies historically and in the last 50 years, but the debate has shifted from let's say roe v. wa
there's not real explanation as to why they're not doing that. >> eric cantor on the house floor said -- actually, let's play the sound. do we have that? >> we want to protect the women who are subject to abuse on triable lands, and, unfortunately, there are issues that don't directly bare on that that have come up that have complicated it. >> michael, i just think you shouldn't have eric cantor and his sort of dripping virginia drawal. it's so unconvincing that they are...
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eric cantor gave our chief congressional correspondent dana bash a preview. listen to this. >> there's a lot of lessons to be learned from the last election and, you know, frankly there are a lot of moms and dads out there that are hurting right now. a lot of working people are having a real struggle trying to get through the month and too many americans out of work. i think what we all need to do is focus on how we're going to make life work for those people again. >> our chief political analyst, gloria borger, is here. what is eric cantor trying to accomplish now? >> he's trying to reshape the republican party. they've got to rethink their strategy and that bite that you just showed really illustrates it, wolf. i was talking to one republican strategist today about eric cantor's speech and the entire process that's going on in the republican party, and he said, quote, we need to finish the sentence. the republican party spent over a billion dollars trying to sell mitt romney and to the american people, and they didn't finish the sentence. what we see him go
eric cantor gave our chief congressional correspondent dana bash a preview. listen to this. >> there's a lot of lessons to be learned from the last election and, you know, frankly there are a lot of moms and dads out there that are hurting right now. a lot of working people are having a real struggle trying to get through the month and too many americans out of work. i think what we all need to do is focus on how we're going to make life work for those people again. >> our chief...